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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Esther 3 NASB ESV Parallel</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/newp.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/esther/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../../topmenuchap/esther/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/esther/">Esther</a> > Esther 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../esther/2.shtml" title="Esther 2">◄</a> Esther 3 <a href="../esther/4.shtml" title="Esther 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">NASB Parallel ESV <a href="../../bsb/esther/3.shtml">[BSB</a> <a href="../../csb/esther/3.shtml">CSB</a> <a href="../../esv/esther/3.shtml">ESV</a> <a href="../../hcs/esther/3.shtml">HCS</a> <a href="../../kjv/esther/3.shtml">KJV</a> <a href="../../isv/esther/3.shtml">ISV</a> <a href="../../nas/esther/3.shtml">NAS</a> <a href="../../net/esther/3.shtml">NET</a> <a href="../../niv/esther/3.shtml">NIV</a> <a href="../../nlt/esther/3.shtml">NLT</a> <a href="../../heb/esther/3.shtml">HEB]</a></div><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="50%">New American Standard Bible 1995</td><td class="version" width="50%">English Standard Version</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext1">After these events King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him and established his authority over all the princes who were with him.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, and advanced him and set his throne above all the officials who were with him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">All the king's servants who were at the king's gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman; for so the king had commanded concerning him. But Mordecai neither bowed down nor paid homage.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And all the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then the king's servants who were at the king's gate said to Mordecai, "Why are you transgressing the king's command?"<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate said to Mordecai, “Why do you transgress the king’s command?”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Now it was when they had spoken daily to him and he would not listen to them, that they told Haman to see whether Mordecai's reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And when they spoke to him day after day and he would not listen to them, they told Haman, in order to see whether Mordecai’s words would stand, for he had told them that he was a Jew.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">When Haman saw that Mordecai neither bowed down nor paid homage to him, Haman was filled with rage.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage to him, Haman was filled with fury.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him who the people of Mordecai were; therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, Pur, that is the lot, was cast before Haman from day to day and from month to month, until the twelfth month, that is the month Adar.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur (that is, they cast lots) before Haman day after day; and they cast it month after month till the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of all other people and they do not observe the king's laws, so it is not in the king's interest to let them remain.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king’s laws, so that it is not to the king’s profit to tolerate them.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"If it is pleasing to the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who carry on the king's business, to put into the king's treasuries."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king’s business, that they may put it into the king’s treasuries.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The king said to Haman, "The silver is yours, and the people also, to do with them as you please."<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the king said to Haman, “The money is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then the king's scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and it was written just as Haman commanded to the king's satraps, to the governors who were over each province and to the princes of each people, each province according to its script, each people according to its language, being written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king's signet ring.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then the king’s scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and an edict, according to all that Haman commanded, was written to the king’s satraps and to the governors over all the provinces and to the officials of all the peoples, to every province in its own script and every people in its own language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s signet ring.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Letters were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces to destroy, to kill and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to seize their possessions as plunder.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Letters were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with instruction to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">A copy of the edict to be issued as law in every province was published to all the peoples so that they should be ready for this day.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">A copy of the document was to be issued as a decree in every province by proclamation to all the peoples to be ready for that day.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The couriers went out impelled by the king's command while the decree was issued at the citadel in Susa; and while the king and Haman sat down to drink, the city of Susa was in confusion.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The couriers went out hurriedly by order of the king, and the decree was issued in Susa the citadel. And the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was thrown into confusion.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit <a href="http://www.lockman.org" target="_top">//www.lockman.org</a></td><td class="copy" width="50%">ESV Text Edition: 2016. The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="//www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. 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